AMD Vega available for pre-order

[TheRandomness]

Not really much to say, other than Vega's now up for pre order:

https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/gpu-amd/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-graphics-cards

https://www.sabrepc.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=radeon+vega&order=relevance&dir=desc

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Two Vega cards are listed at Scan UK and Sabre PC: the air-cooled version and liquid version of Vega Frontier. Both are listed with the exact same specifications. The new part is 13.1 TFLOPs FP32 compute performance. In other words, Vega Frontier has GPU clock of 1600 MHz.

Both cards are equipped with 16GB HBM2 memory and Vega 10 GPU with 4096 Stream Processors. Frontier Edition has four display outputs: 3x DisplayPort and HDMI.

The Radeon Vega Frontier Liquid will be available for 1,799 USD / 1,656 GBP, while the air-cooled edition will retail at 1,199 USD / 1,140 GBP. Both models are in stock at one of the retailers.

Pictures and stuff:

Spoiler

Source: https://videocardz.com/70299/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-graphics-card-available-for-preorder

[domandric034]

I wouldn't pre order until some benchmarks fly in to show how it is aginst GTX 1070 

[domandric034]

I think miners will pre order and make RX 580 story all over again.

[PCGuy_5960]

$1200? I really hope that the gaming version is more reasonably priced 

[domandric034]

2 minutes ago, Jorgen297 said:

Yeah, waiting for third party benchmarks is a must for me. But in this case I'm worried the miners will snatch all the Vegas right after launch.

Don't worry they will. If it falls behind in gaming then it will destroy NVIDIA in mining. Some serious money will be thrown for bigger profit

[Mooshi]

2 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

I think miners will pre order and make RX 580 story all over again.

If only they would sod off into an actual mine and stop artificially inflating gaming cards.

[Agosto]

Wait, what? 300+ W?

[2bitmarksman]

Due to the new architecture I doubt it will be good for mining straight away until the miner programmers can tune their mining programs. Also the nvidia and AMD mining dedicated cards should help alleviate the huge Out of Stock issues with the 470/480/570/580.

[Dylanc1500]

Starting at the same price as the Titan Xp, I hope it will out perform it.

[domandric034]

When are they going to restock RX 5**'s and RX 4**'s ?

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Dylanc1500 said:

Starting at the same price as the Titan Xp, I hope it will out perform it.

Remember that this is the Radeon Pro of the Vega lineup. The other cards should be cheaper. But according to that table at the bottom, it should, but I wouldn't trust it one bit.

[2bitmarksman]

Just now, domandric034 said:

When are they going to restock RX 5**'s and RX 4**'s ?

I really hope it's soon :<

[ChineseChef]

2 minutes ago, 2bitmarksman said:

Due to the new architecture I doubt it will be good for mining straight away until the miner programmers can tune their mining programs. Also the nvidia and AMD mining dedicated cards should help alleviate the huge Out of Stock issues with the 470/480/570/580.

Financial motivation should be more than enough to motivate the miners to update their programs.

[Inkz]

I can't see TFlops anymore without thinking of the Xbox One X memes.

[2bitmarksman]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

Remember that this is the Radeon Pro of the Vega lineup. The other cards should be cheaper. But according to that table at the bottom, it should, but I wouldn't trust it one bit.

New architecture = growing pains. It's gonna happen, just hopefully it won't be too bad or for too long.

[domandric034]

Just now, 2bitmarksman said:

I really hope it's soon :<

I really wanna start mining. I got G4560 with B250 Mobo and 8 GB of RAM with Ubuntu on it.

[domandric034]

Just now, Inkz said:

I can't see TFlops anymore without thinking of the Xbox One X memes.

me 2

[Sakkura]

2 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

When are they going to restock RX 5**'s and RX 4**'s ?

They won't restock the 400 series. 500... whenever they can. Fabs don't change their plans overnight, so it's a bit of a tough spot for AMD.

[2bitmarksman]

Just now, ChineseChef said:

Financial motivation should be more than enough to motivate the miners to update their programs.

Not saying it won't happen that the miners will make their programs work with it, it's a matter of how long it will take to make it work with a new architecture and even then how good is it. Biggest problem with the AMD card shortage is the fact that they just work so well at mining Ethereum. If these new cards out of the box aren't very good at that or ZCash they will likely still at least be around for the rest of us to buy and use.

[Dylanc1500]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

Remember that this is the Radeon Pro of the Vega lineup. The other cards should be cheaper. But according to that table at the bottom, it should, but I wouldn't trust it one bit.

Ya, that had slipped my mind until after I had already posted it. Not to mention for some reason on my phone I am not currently able to see the photos under the spoiler.

[domandric034]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

They won't restock the 400 series. 500... whenever they can. Fabs don't change their plans overnight, so it's a bit of a tough spot for AMD.

I hope when Vega comes out that RX 580 will be avaliable cause I want that turd in my miner.

 

[2bitmarksman]

1 minute ago, domandric034 said:

I really wanna start mining. I got G4560 with B250 Mobo and 8 GB of RAM with Ubuntu on it.

You can mine dual mine Ethereum + Decred or ZCash with 1060's and make about the same, 1070, 1080 or 1080 ti's it's much better to mine ZCash. AMD is best for Ethereum, nvidia is best for Zcash

[2bitmarksman]

1 minute ago, domandric034 said:

I hope when Vega comes out that RX 580 will be avaliable cause I want that turd in my miner.

 

I'd prefer the 580's cuz they are a cheaper way to get started but 1070's or 1060's can totally work too. Just wanna mine to the cards strengths. Til I can make a rig I'm putting my desktops 1080 to work on some ZCash mining

[domandric034]

Just now, 2bitmarksman said:

You can mine dual mine Ethereum + Decred or ZCash with 1060's and make about the same, 1070, 1080 or 1080 ti's it's much better to mine ZCash. AMD is best for Ethereum, nvidia is best for Zcash

I don't throw money at NVIDIA anymore but I should checkout Zcash. Had lately issues with my GTX 960. RMA'd with R9 380X (Yep we still have that shit there in Croatia). I hope they did god fucking good job on Vega cause they had enough time and they sacrificed competition to make a big enemy for NVIDIA's High End Pascal GPU's.

[Sauron]

19 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

I wouldn't pre order until some benchmarks fly in to show how it is aginst GTX 1070 

These are the workstation models. Not for you unless you want to spend 1100$